My Father is my Mother’s Brother
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My Father is my Mother’s Brother

Vadym Ilkov
A bohemian singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister's mental health deteriorates, and finds himself awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his rowdy nightlife and provocative art.
Vadym Ilkov graduated from Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and TV in 2000. In 2010 Vadym was the recipient of GAUDE POLONIA (Poland) scholarship in the field of cinematography. He worked as a director of photography on a number of fiction, documentary and animated films. His recent projects as a DoP include MARIUPOLIS, dir. Mantas Kvedaravicius (world premiere at Berlinale 2016) and VOLCANO, dir. Roman Bondarchuk (world premiere at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018). Vadym is one of the organizers of the first Ukrainian open-air festival Sheshory (later – Art Pole). It existed for 12 years and combined diverse fields of art. It significantly changed Ukrainian cultural landscape. His directorial debut is Waltz Alchevsk (Ukraine, 2014, 54’, doc). My Father is my Mother’s Brother is his first feature doc.

– Visions du Réel 2018 – Prix du Jury Régionyon, Most innovative feature film of the International Competition (Switzerland)
– Camden Int. Film Festival – Cinematic Vision Award (USA)
– Hot Docs 2018 – Official Selection (Canada)
– CinéDOC Tbilisi – Current Time TV Award (Georgia)

  • Original title My Father is my Mother's Brother
  • Director Vadym Ilkov
  • Duration 76
  • Production year 2018
  • Theme LGBT+
  • Aspect 1:1:85
  • Format DCP
  • Category Feature Film
  • Subcategory Documentary
  • Gender Drama
  • Nationality Ukraine
  • Producer Garmata Film Studio
  • Dialogue language Russian, Ukranian
  • Subtitle language English
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